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добу
YOU KNEW THE JOB WAS
DANGEROUS
My friends and I found a canal to
skate in. One day we were skating
there and some guy in a green Volks-
wagen watched us for about five or
ten minutes. Five minutes after he
drove away we decided to leave.
When we were almost home these
cop cars pulled up at the canal look-
ing for us. We came back about two
hours later and the canal was full! I
hope you pigs had your fun ruining.
our Christmas vacation you a-holes.
A mad skatel,
Mesa, AZ
OUT OF PARK BUT NOT
OUT OF SORTS
On the fateful day of January 2nd
the only skateboard park in Winston-
Salem was destroyed, annihilated,
trashed, 88'ed, gone, good-bye, no
more. Our loving, tenderhearted city
decided that the park would look bet-
ter as level ground. But hey, at least
its destruction served a purpose.
The rare element, dirt, was found be-
neath the elegant hills of cement
which were once a skatepark. The
dirt is now being used as a founda-
tion for a thriving car wash across
the street.
As for now, the only slopes in this
city are the parking decks down-
town. This can be quite humiliating
to the locals who, once, lived near
a park so popular people would
come from as far as Virginia Beach
(200 miles) to skate. So, if you don't
mind, to protect the well-being of
local skater's mental health, please
send some ramp plans as soon as
possible! Don't worry, here's our cash.
It comes from the pockets of every
skater in Winston-Salem. Please
keep in mind, the future of North
Carolina skating is in your hands,
and the destruction of our park will
be avenged.
WORDY RAP
Local Skaters
Winston-Salem, NC
Skating, sex, Jesus, love, rock &
roll, Russia, repo cars, drugs.
BMXers, the sidewalk, Dairy Queen,
surfing, school days, poseurs, feet,
smoking, snowboards, drinking.
food, your parents, pets, Nautilus.
equipment, the Armed Forces, T.V..
death, dating relationships, homo-
sexuals, the Bomb, art, the press,
the government, the future, abortion,
Halley's comet and God.
Scott's, Jill's and Tom's
Denver, CO
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
THING
I'm writing a short note about Sep-
tember's issue about cycloids. I'm
glad ya put dat in cause I had to do
something that had to do with
Geometry and I couldn't find a thing.
Then I started to strum through my
mags, remembering this cycloid shit.
Rad! And guess what? I got an "A"!
The teacher said that this was the
first of this that she heard of. So ya
guys keep up the good work.
Dan Smith
T.S.S.R.
MOTORHEADS
Me and my buds got a chain-saw
motor and mounted it on a long skate.
It cruises about 15 mph and has no
brakes. We used to cruise every-
where on it until a cop pulled us over.
He impounded it and it cost $40 to
get it out. Now we have to go to
court. 'O' well, later.
RETALE
Local Skate
M.B., CA
We live in a lame town. There are
only three or four good skaters. It's
not the skate scene that sucks, it's
the skate harassment. Couple
months ago we tried to open a skate
shop. It was going pretty well for a
little while, but we started getting a
bunch of assholes who wouldn't
leave. The only cool people were
skaters, who were few. One day,
while we were cleanin' up, some fifty
freaks started yelling at us from
across the street. Some anti-skate
merchants called the cops and one
said for them to come in rot uniforms.
Then, later that night, the damn
mayor told us to close up shop, even
though we had already gotten our
retail licenses. Now we can't open
at all, but we're still selling boards
out of our basement.
Out of luck and money
Walker & Omar
Morganton, NC
IMAGE PROBLEM
To the skate industry:
I'm really tired of you shoving your
tired images of what skating is about
down my throat. Judging by your
pathetic sexist advertisements, your
shoddy equipment and the con-
tradiction between the "hardcore"
lifestyle you push on us and the
comfy lifestyle you lead I'd say you
don't know what skating's about.
The "hardcore" image you spout off
about, using THRASHER as your
mouthpiece, is just a game to hide
what skating really means to you; a
tidy profit. It's taken me three years
to get hip to your con but I finally
see you as the overstuffed thieves
that you really are. I guess my defini-
tion of hardcore is way different than
yours. Yours says that it's ok. that
we buy you fancy cars, houses by the
beach and send your snotty-nosed
sponsored skaters around the world.
on vacation, that's it's okay to use us
to build your bank account. My defi-
nition says that's bullshit. I think it's
time we throw the crap you feed us
back in your faces. Remember, you
need us, we don't need you.
Hatefully yours,
Todd Forkin
Boulder, CO
Come on, let's see just how far
THRASHER will go in printing let-
tors. Feel free to take out the curses
if you need to, but print this. I dare
you.
The opinions expressed are those
of the letter writer and do not reflect
the opinions of the staff or editorial
stance of THRASHER Magazine. The
letter was printed in its entirety, how-
ever we did substitute crap' for 'shil
in the last paragraph. Ted.
Am
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